Microsoft had a new patent application published with the USPTO today which shows a glasses-based heads-up display system that could overlay information on the real world for a user. If it sounds familiar, that's likely because that's what Google's trying to accomplish with Project Glass, which actually already has functional prototypes out in the wild.

Apple Apple has long been working on a Google Glasses-like heads up display, and have been granted a couple of patents already. But Patently Apple has drudged up their latest one, which promises to bring Retina-quality visuals to the little screen . And intriguing as that may be, the more entertaining thing here is the sketch itself. More »

Apple Apple just got awarded a new patent that may become the wearable version of the iPad one day: eyeglasses that would display apps, video, images, and overlay information on the world around you in realtime’something like Schwarzenegger's vision in Terminator. More »